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| Question 72: What is the difference between labor and labor power? |
| [65] MsMarx: Labor and labor power The Capitalist buys labor power in order to use it, and labor power in use is labor itself. The purchase of labor power consumes it by setting the seller of it to work. By working, the seller becomes actually, what before he only was potentially, labor power in action, a laborer. |
| Capitalism labor power is just one commodity among others, whose price is determined by the amount of labor that goes into its production. Human labor power itself must be developed before it can be expended in different forms. The value of a commodity represents human labor plain and simple, the expenditure of human labor in general. Labor power needs development (schooling, training, experience). |
| Labor is a process in which both man and nature participate, and in which man of his own accord starts, regulates, and controls the material re-actions between himself and nature. |
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